Slow motion and an extended long takes are used to make the ritualised dynamics of a high school formal increasingly sinister and disturbing.
The second in director Andrew Kavanagh’s filmic observations of tribalism and ritual in contemporary society, MEN OF THE EARTH follows on from AT THE FORMAL, taking us behind the stop sign of a roadworks site to observe a secret ceremony of working men.
How does a returned soldier begin to explain the horrors of war to their community and their loved ones? Some never get the chance to try. In WELCOME HOME ALLEN, a group of soldiers make the journey from the battlefield to their peaceful hometown where they will be forced to reconcile two worlds far removed.